Staying on post-9/11 government surveillance, the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports that the Defense Dept. is gathering personal and financial information from the FBI. This is disquieting for a couple of reasons. First, the Pentagon may be taking advantage of the fact that the FBI has greater spying powers than they do. Second, the FBI itself is under fire for its abuse of national security letters to obtain personal information about citizens tangential to the “war on terror.”   Read Gorman here.  MB

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